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The Weather
Forecast : Increailnf cloud
Intel with Upht rain tonight
and Wednesday, 1 1 1 h 1 1
warmer tonight.
Temperature
Highest yesterday A3
Lowest ttiti morning 25
Christmas Money
Sell off pvrtonaj and other
article you no longer need
to be found around the home.
In tltU way hate extra Chrtt
tna money and at the unie
time make Christ mai happier
for other a.
Medford
1K1UUJNE
Full Associated Press
Full United Press
Thirty-fourth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1939.
No. 220.
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: Clll RUSSO-NAZI PACT
Washington, D. C, Dec. 5.
Policy Committee this week
with representatives of 50 eas
tern power companies contains
more than a potential threat to
the prospective development of
industry in Washington and Ore
gon, with respect to utilization
of energy from Bonneville and
Grand Coulee.
This committee, chairmaned
by Secretary Ickes, and with
most active advocates of gov-
crnment-ownership as members,
proposes creation of a super-
grid or transmission system ex
tending east from the Mississip
pi river, with Chicago as its
most westernly point. In this
grid, as planned, will be all the
public and private generating
plants, hydro and steam, all
pouring their electric energy
into one gigantic pool.
Ostensibly, the theory is to
provide sufficient power for in-
dustries needed for national de
fense and to guard against stop
page of vital power should an
important plant be sabotaged or
bombed.
Another reason for the series
of conferences is political. Sec
retary Ickes and his group wish
to avoid the power Issue (ad
' ministration nagging at the pri
vate utilities) in the presidential
campaign.
I Continued on Page Six.)
ADDIE HALLEY ESTATE
VALUED AT $106,517;
Appraisal of the estate of the
late Addie Halley, filed with the
county clerk today, lists the es
tate value at $106,517.13. Ap
praisers were M. N. Hogan, Oris
Crawford, and M. A. Goldy.
Bulk of the estate is in United
States treasury bonds with
realty values in this city placed
at $52,400, including the Palace
hotel property on South Central
avenue. The remainder is in per
sonal property and a bank de
posit of $1500.
Mrs. Halley in her will made
J bequests to a brother and two
sisters, to the National Women's
Christian Temperance Union,
two Medford churches, and two
Medford Sunday schools, and
trust funds of $500 each to the
local fire department and police
department, to be used as a
Christmas fund for the regular
members.
Mrs. Halley was a resident of
this city for nearly half a cen
tury and widely known.
Josephine Tax Levy
Takes Slight Rise
Grants Pass, Dec. 5. OP)
Josephine county's tax levy will
rise 1.1 mills to 22.5 mills in
1940. County Assessor Jns. J.
McFadden estimated today. As
sessed valuation rose $135,931
to $6,275,305 total.
SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Minnie Bryant getting the
Christmas gift urge early and
delivering a box of simply lus
cious home-made candy to a
friend.
Lester Price denying to a
group of friends that he keeps
his thumb wrapped up to get
out of a lot of work, but finally
admitting the bandage was
really retained to incrca.-e his
ping-pong handicap.
Magician John Eads not be
ing able to solve the mystery
concerning the Craterian Santa
Claus workings.
And Jack Matlack giggling to
himself.
Helen C'onroy simply fed up
with various cuto antics of other
persons' pet cat
FINNS I
British Foreign Secretary
Says People Shocked By
Bombing of Open Towns.
Moscow, Dec. 5 (P) So
viet Russia has given notice
of withdrawal from sessions
of the League of Nations call
ed lo act on Finland's charge
of aggression. Russia, in
fact, construes the invitation
as an insult.
London, Dec. 5 (P) Foreign
Secretary Lord Halifax today
called the Russian invasion of
Finland an "inexcusable act of
aggression by one of the largest
on one of the smallest" nations
in Europe.
The foreign secretary told the
house of lords the Russian at
tack was a direct outgrowth of
the Germ&n-Russian agreement,
and added:
"Open towns have been bom
barded, women and children
mutilated and done to death on
the pretext that a nation of un
der four millions had hostile
designs against one of 180 mil
lions.
"The British people have been
profoundly shocked by the cir
cumstances of the Soviet attack
and they have profoundly ad
mired the magnificent resist
ance of the Finns."
Halifax said the British posi
tion would be made plain at
the League of Nations session.
Washington, Dec. 5. (P)
Sumner Welles, acting secretary
of state, announced today the
United States government had
notified certain Latin-American
nations it would be very glad
to participate in a joint Pan
American condemnation of Rus
sia's invasion of Finland.
Certain Latin - American na
tions, which he did not name,
have approached this govern
ment in support, Welles said,
of the principles of interna
tional law and with reprobation
(Continued oa Page Seven )
WOMAN IS SAVED
BY
Bingham, Utah, Dec. 5. (P)
Lying abed, Mrs. E. L. Acker-
man of lower Bingham felt that
something fearful was about to
happen.
Uneasily, she left her bed and
drew up a chair beside the
kitchen stove. Instants later, she
heard a great roar.
A two-ton boulder, gathering
speed and force in its descent
of the steep hillside above the
house, broke through the roof
of the bedroom, demolished the
bed and crumbled a dressing
table.
Then it rolled through the
outer wall of the home and
again into the darkness of the
night.
Soviet Mouthpiece Urges
'American Toilers' To Act
Moscow, Dec. 5. VP) A com
munist party organ today called
upon "American toilers" to de
feat the "war plans" of "Amer
ican imperialism" and declared
"the American communist party
is actively preparing fulfillment
of its historical task in the new
international situation."
The call was made in an art
icle in the monthly magazine
"Sputnik Agitators" the "Agi
tator's Companion" an organ
providing propaganda material
for party lecturers and organ
izers throughout the country.
The article, signed by "N.
Ross," was by far the most bit
ter press attack against the
United States yet to appear
here.
"President Roosevelt." said
the article, "is more and more
siding with the incendiaries of
war. The United States govern -
I inent U issuing extraordinary
Chops Off Hand
' . . - . '
Elbert Snyder (above), 24, dis
plays the stump of his right
hand which he asserted "the
Lord told me to cut off." Sny
der said he had been careless
in the use of a Sunday School
paper and declared he didn't
mind the pain. He is from
Charleston, W. Va.
SWEDEN ALARMED BY
CALLS UP RECRUITS
Stockholm, Dec. 5. (IP) -
Sweden, in increasing alarm at
the extent of the Soviet Russian
incursion into Finland, called
more troops to the colors today
and for the first time acknowl
edged "partial mobilization."
About 40,000 men, including
artillerymen, engineers and com
mission detachments, were or
dered into service, bringing to
about 150,000 the number under
arms as against a normal
standing force of 20,000.
The troops are for "wartime
service," published notices said.
Previous military orders re
ferred only to "preparedness."
The number of Swedes en
listing in volunteer corps for
service with the Finns passed
1,000 today, and more than
1,000,000 kronur ($240,000) was
subscribed by citizens for their
benefit.
Sweden herself, however, con
tinued to direct her efforts to
ward neutrality, one official
informant remarking, "We may
be wealthy, but our forces are
too small to send to the aid of
another country."
Finnish refugees reaching
Haparanda, on the Swedish side
of the frontier, related today
they were machine-gunned by
Russian planes which they
rushed out to greet near Pet
samo in the mistaken belief
they were Red Cross craft.
ROUTINE BUSINESS ON ,
CITY COUNCIL PROGRAM
Only routine business is due
to come before the semi-monthly
meeting of the city council
tonight at 7:30 in the council
chambers of city hall.
decrees which It is claimed arc
directed against spies and sab
oteurs but In reality are used
against communists and all anti
war forces. . . .
"American toilers are faced
with a great task that of
crushing the war plans of a
powerful f o e American im
perialism." The Soviet Union observed a
holiday in celebration of the
third anniversary of the "Sta
linist constitution" as the Rus
sian armies and fleet battled
Finland.
Most of the press devoted IU
space to praise of the consti
tution and life in Russia and
to attacks on capitalism.
Pravda, the official commu
nist party organ, said that "CM
government exists without Mor
I gans, Rockefellers. Nobels jr
; Rothschilds, and even without a
i notorious Al Capone."
E BACK AT
IN BALTIC
Paldiski Port Bombarded
New Russ Attack on Hel
sinki Feared Tomorrow.
By Lynn Heinierling
Helsinki, Dec. 5. W) Fin
land was reported today to have
struck back at Soviet Russia by
air bombardment of Paldiski,
the Baltic port which Russia
leased from Estonia for a naval
base. The reports lacked con
firmation, however, and gave no
details.
Finns had declared Paldiski
was the base for some of the
Soviet planes which raided Hel
sinki last week.
(Dispatches from ttie Norwegian-Finnish
frontier told of
unconfirmed reports that 60
Russian planes had been de
stroyed by Finnish fliers drop
ping incendiary bombs at Mur
mansk, Russia's Ice-free Arctic
port.
(The border reports also said
three Soviet planes had raided
Saimijaervi and nearby regions
of northern Finland).
Put Hope In Sweden
Finnish hope aid might be
forthcoming from Sweden was
indicated by quick fortification
of the Aaland islands which
would keep open a sea route
between the two nations.
' Helsinki's early winter night
closed down after a quiet day
which saw no resumption of air
attacks on the capital, But Finns
gloomily expressed fear that
Soviet Russia might choose the
21st anniversary of Finnish in
dependence tomorrow to un
leash a new attack from the sky.
Always observed with solem
nity by the Finns, the indepen
dence anniversary will have
added significance as the sturdy
northerners fight to preserve
their freedom.
Movement of civilians out of
Helsinki to the interior is prac
tically complete, but workmen
still are hurriedly boarding up
windows and doors.
Russian Claims Hit
A Finnish government spokes
man, discussing Moscow's state
ment that Russia is at peace
with the Finnish people, de
clared "The world's diplomatic
history knows no document as
cynical as this.
"All that the Russian govern
ment has to say about the gov
ernment based on Finland's par
liamentary system consists of
lies and false allegations.
"This document better than
anything shows the real face of
the Soviet government which
declares itself the protector of
small nations and creator of the
independence and liberty of
small nations."
E
Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 5. lP)
Representatives of Gov. Bob
Jones failed again today to ob
tain possession of a note left
by Winnie Ruth Judd, fugitive
mad slayer, who still led offi
cers on a wlll-o-the-wisp search.
The mysterious communica
tion to the governor is held by
Mrs. H. J. McKinnell, aged
mother of Mrs. Judd.
Fourteen highway patrolmen
were beating the brush today
In a large area north of the
hospital, in the belief Mrs. Judd
might be hiding In orange
groves. A woman was reported
to have burglarized a house in
that neighborhood last night
SUB-POST OFFICE
Post office Sub-Station No. 1.
will be opened tomorrow at 31
North Bartlett street. The sta
tion, which will be In charge
of Edna Eifert, clerk, will be
available to patrons from 8 a.
m. to 5 p. m. daily.
Influenza Forces
Rogue River To
Suspend Schools
Grants Pass, Nov. 5. (A)
n influenza epidemic In
Rogue River closed the grade
Hid union high schools in the
lackson county town east of
nere today until at least n"xt
Monday. Four of the ten
teachers were among those
II.
Half the students at
Murphy, south of here, were
jbsent yesterday.
The Rogue valley flu epi
demic in the past three weeks
has at times closed schools at
Kerby, Medford and Talent.
Locally, an epidemic which
saw more than one-third of
the Grants Pass pupils absent
has practically disappeared.
FLU EPIDEMIC El
BUT PRESENT ATTACKS
HIT SUFFERER HARDER
A Medford physician stated
this morning that approximately
75 per cent of the city's popu
lation is either now suffering
from influenza or just recently
recovered from the disease. The
physician stated that while the
epidemic seems to be ebbing,
those now in its clutches are
suffering greater prostration
and more complications than ap
peared to be the case in the
early stages of the onslaught.
The county health office re
ports that the epidemic in rural
districts has not been as severe
as in city districts-'and that the
number of cases is dwindling.
Hospitals report that they are
filled to capacity with influenza
cases and others.
Another Medford medical
man stated that a good rain
would put an end to the epi
demic almost immediately.
The city school superintend
ent's office reported the follow-
ing number of students absent'
today: Higli school, 63; junior
L. I L. - 1 Oft Tl fin.
'"8" "uui. oo, ddunwiii, i;,trated the front of his neck.
Lincoln, 28; Roosevelt, 40
Washington 56. This is a con
siderable drop from absentee
figures of last week.
NAZIS WARN TURKEY
RUSSIA MAY ACT TO
E NEAR EAST
Berlin, Dec. 5. (P) French
activity In the Near East and
Turkey's pact with Britain and
France are leading to counter
measures, authorized sources in
timated today, which may
change the whole character of
the present war and make Rus
sia the decisive factor.
This Intimation was seconded
in a much franker editorial in
today's Coelkischer Beobachter,
principal Nazi party organ, Rus
sia, according to this officially
inspired view, can make history
repeat Itself as exemplified in
Alexander the Great's con
quests. (Alexander the Great con
quered huge sections of the Near
East, Asia and Africa, including
what now is Turkey, parts of
India and Egypt.)
The Voelkisehcr Beobachter
published a long analysis of the
strategic situation in the Near
East, the obvious purpose of
which was to let the Turks know
they are betting on the wrong
horse.
ON WING FOR HOME
Lisbon, Dec. 5. ff'i Joseph
P. Kennedy, United States am
bassador to London, departed
for New York this morning on
a trans-Atlantic clipper.
(The London embassy an
nounced November '23 Kennedy
had been called home by the
state department for consulta
tion, the nature of which it did
not disclose).
The envoy has been waiting
here since last Friday to con
tinue his aerial trip.
CORONER SLATES
AT 7:30
Officers Involved And De
ceased's Brother Will Be
Witnesses At Hearing
A coroner's inquest Into the
death yesterday of Zera Edward
Dahack, 71, Lake Creek rancher
killed in a gun battle at noon
with State Police Sergeant Ed
Walker and Private George Al
bright, will be held in the coun
ty courthouse auditorium at 7:30
tonight. The inquest will be op
en to the public.
Deputy District Attorney
GcorgiMNeilson, who arrived at
the shooting scene a short time
after it happened, will conduct
the inquest. Those slated to tes
tify are Officers Walker and Al
bright, State Police Captain Lee
M. Bown, Private Al Stoehr,
Sergeant O. A. MacKinnon and
Irvin Dahack, brother of the de
ceased. 187 Pounds Venison
It was disclosed by state po
lice today that 187 pounds of
venison, apparently parts of
four deer, were confiscated by
Officers Albright and Walker
when they went to the Dahack
cabin, in the wilds of the Lake
Creek country on the Dead In
dian Soda Springs road about 12
miles above the store, yesterday
morning. The meat, the officers
stated, was on a small porch
connected . to the cabin.
Irvin Dahack, who lived with
his brother in the cabin, was
brought to Medford yesterday
for questioning concerning the
venison, and was released on his
own recognizance by the dis
trict attorney. He admitted, po
lice stated, that the deer had
been killed after the season
closed. No action has been taken
on him.
Zera Dahack was struck by
two bullets, one of which pene-
......
severing the juglar vein and
ranging downward, and the
other striking him In the back
below the right shoulder, ac
cording to the coroner's office
Neither state policeman was
wounded.
Followed Cabin Visit
The shooting fray followed
the officers' visit to the Dahack
cabin. The two officers left Med
ford at 9:20 yesterday morning,
armed with a search warrant
Issued after Information had
been received that Dahack had
venison in his possession out of
season. Arriving at the cabin,
after a long ride over the twist
ing and rocky road, the officers
found neither brother at home.
They searched the small house,
and after loading the venison in
their coupe started back toward
Lake Creek.
About two miles from the
cabin, the officers related Da
hack stepped from behind a
large tree at the left side of the
road and. at the point of a rifle,
commanded them to halt
Sergeant Walker explained
max, alter the car was stonnerl
he got out the right door and
heard Dahack shout, "I'll give
you Just 10 seconds to Unload
that meat before I kill you."
. Reasoning Tried
The officer said he retorted,
"Now put that gun away and
don't make matters any worse."
Dahack then ran to the other
side of the road, the officers
stated, stepped behind a small
tree and fired from a distance
of 43 feet. Sergeant Walker
drew his gun and returned the
fire, as Private Albright climbed
irom Dehlnd the wheel of the
car and also opened fire, the
policemen explained. Dahack
fired again, then ran back across
the road and found partial con
cealment behind another tree
150 feet from the car, the of
ficers said.
There, the officers said, Da
hack shot once more. The
policemen continued firing as
Dahack ducked from behind
the tree and back again, and
it is believed by police that .the
bullet, striking him in the neck,
spun him around as he started
to run down the side of the
road. He finally fell 237 feet
In a direct line from the car,
and ubout 10 feet from the road.
It is assumed by police that
Death Laid to Dad
L mi!.,! ., i nr lie i ni-iiifl
Arthur Schiller, Jr., (upper),
seven-year-old Seattle boy was
fatally stabbed. Seattle police
said, by his father (lower), who
then attempted to take his own
life. The elder Schiller Is shown
in the hospital.
TEXAS HEREFORD
Chicago, Dec. 8. (IP) A
Hereford steer from Texas,
Lucky Boy 2nd, owned by May
field Kothmann of Mason, was
adjudged the grand champion
steer of the 40th International
Livestock show today.
It was the first time since
1932 that a Hereford won the
most coveted purple ribbon of
the show.
Another Texas Hereford, Tex
as State Fair, shown by Jack
Baker of Bluff Dale, won the
reserve grand championship.
Dahack, In the vicinity of the
cabin at the time it was entered
by the two officers, saw them
tako the venison and used a
shortcut from the cabin to In
tercept the automobile. The
road at this point swings around
a mountain for a distance of
about two miles from the scene
of the shooting to the cabin.
and by going straight down the
mountain Dahack would have
had to travel only about a
quarter of that distance.
Used Wrong Cartridges
In Dahack's 38-55 calibre
Marlin lever rifle were 30-30
shells. The Dahack's also had
a 30-30 calibre rifle in the
cabin, and police believe that
Dahack, in his haste to secure
ammunition after the officers
left, grabbed the wrong shells.
Apparently those wrong-sized
shells in Dahack's gun caused
him to miss Sergeant Walker,
who was in uniform, at 43 feet.
Irvin Dahack, who had been
to Lake Creek with a team
and wagon obtaining groceries,
came upon the scene a few
minutes after the shooting. He
identified his brother, then
drove the team to the cabin
and returned afoot. He re
marked, when he got back, that
"If 1 had been here this would
never have happened."
Captain Bown quoted Ser
geant Walker as saying, "I was
dumfounded when he started
shooting. I had known him for
many years and never before
had any serious trouble with
him."
Dahack was arrested once
before for possession of venison
In closed season. In March,
1934, he was fined $50 and
sentenced to 30 days in jail,
' according to court records.
Yesterday's report of the
shooting was telephoned, Just
before press time, to the Mall
Tribune by a staff reporter, who
accompanied Captain Bown,
Deputy District Attorney Niel-
son and Private Al Stoeiir to
; the seen.
KUHN SENTENCEO
1 LOOTING OF
BUNDJREASURY Two And a Half To Five
Years Imposed On Leader
Of German Americans.
New York, Dec. '5. (IP)
Fritz Kuhn, German-Amprican
bund leader, was sentenced to
day to a prison term of from
two and a half to five years.
He was convicted last week of
grand larceny of bund funds.
The sentence was imposed
on the count of grand larceny
in the James D. C. Murray
transaction and in two counts
of forgery in that connection.
Sentence was suspended by
James C. Wallace on the trans
action involving the alleged
payment of the moving expenses
of Mrs. Florence Camp, the
"blonde angel" of Kuhn's love
letters.
Murray had testified during
the trial that he had never re
ceived $500 which Kuhn claim
ed to have paid him for legal
services.
Hiite Not Factor.
The other charge of larceny
concerned $717 allegedly given
Mrs. Camp.
"This man is not to be sen
tenced because he is a hate dis
penser or a rabble-rouser, for
there are thousands of others
in this country," Judge Wallace)
said before he pronounced sen
tence. -Kuhn's
attorney, Peter L. T.
Sabbatino, had contended during
the trial . that political perse
cution lay at the bottom of the
case.
The judge denied a defense
request to suspend sentence. -
"I will rely upon your vast
store of experience to pass fit
ting sentence," Sabbatino said.
He made no motion to defer
execution of sentence pending
a possible appeal.
Loses Civil Rights.
Conviction and sentence auto
matically deprive Kuhn of such
civil rights as voting, holding
public office and other privi
leges granted by citizenship.
These can be restored only by
action of the governor after
Kuhn has served his sentence.
His citizenship, as. such, is
not revoked. Kuhn, German
born, became a naturalized citi
zen in 1933.
The state contended at
Kuhn's trial that he altered
his records to conceal the dis
position of the $500 in the Mur
ray matter.
Kuhn already had turned
over the bund leadership to an
acting fuehrer, Gerhard Wil
helm Kunze.
Kunze, In .an interview, said
he would make no changes in
the bund work, and added ha
would act as leader only tern'
porarlly.
REPULSE GERMAN RAIDS
ALONG WESTERN FRONT
Paris, Dec. 5. (P) The ra
pulse of a series of German
raids on the western front was
reported by tonight's high com
munique. "The enemy attempted a
series of raids, all of which
failed," it said.
Radio Highlights
By Associated Press
(Pacific standard time.)
Tonight: Europe WABC-CBS
5:55. 8; MBS 4:30, 0; WEAF
NBC East 8.
WABC-CBS 7:45 Rural Youth
program, Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt.
WJZ-NBC 7 Secretary of
State Hull's address to Ameri
can Farm Bureau federation.
Wednesday: Europe NBC
Chains 5 a. m.; WABC-CBS S
a. m., 3:30 p. m. WABC-CBS
1, Harry P. Davison on Christ
mas Seals. WJZ-NBC 1, J.
Howard Pew addressing Con
gress of American Industry.'
MBS 8:15 a. m., Howard Coon
ley's address to National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers; 11:30'
a. m., special recruiting broad
cast from navy airplane; 1:30
p. m., award to baseball announcer
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